Listen: Bush 41 is laid to rest in College Station

The nation paused this week to pay tribute to former President George Herbert Walker Bush, who was laid to rest at his presidential library on the campus at Texas A&M University in College Station.

Meantime, the Republican Party of Texas was working overtime to prove the organization is inclusive while some among the GOP ranks work to reject a Muslim official and one activist proudly calls himself a "White Nationalist." Chairman James Dickey says that kind of racism is not welcome at all in today's Texas Republican Party.

And Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller came out in support of hemp production, but said "potheads" shouldn't get too excited because, in his estimation, it's not a slippery slope to marijuana legalization.

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Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets salute as the Unites States Navy perform a 21-strike aircraft "missing man" formation to honor former President George H.W. Bush during his arrival and internment at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, in College Station.

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